Agartala, March 9 (IANS) The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has been setting up supercomputing centres in technical institutions to boost research and development in manufacturing, defence, power, agriculture, communications, climate change, drugs…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Facebook Lite has reached 100 million monthly active users in less than nine months since its launch, making it the fastest growing version of Facebook to hit that milestone, the…
Chennai, March 9 (IANS) The 54 hour, 30-minute countdown status for the March 10 launch of an Indian rocket with the country’s sixth navigation satellite is proceeding normally, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Dell India on Wednesday launched a new Dell Latitude portfolio that has the thinnest business-class Latitude 13 7370 Ultrabook and the unique Latitude 12 7275 2-in-1 detachable Notebook for professionals…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The telecom regulator has extended the date of submission of call drops compensation compliance report for the service providers to March 14, according to industry sources. TRAI has extended compliance…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) One in three Indian parents believe their child will be a victim of online bullying, considerably higher than the global average, a report has said, adding that nearly all parents…
Washington, March 9 (IANS) The first US mission to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth in September this year is undergoing a major milestone in its environmental testing. NASA’s Origins,…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) To cater to cricket fans around the world, social media giant Facebook and its photo-sharing app Instagram have tied up with the International Cricket Council (ICC) to let fans support…
New York, March 9 (IANS) In a new feat, Google-run artificial intelligence (AI) programme “AlphaGo” has defeated legendary player Lee Se-dol in Go — a complex Chinese board game that is considered the “quintessential unsolved…
By Devanik Saha Recent indications that India’s Internet use is low and not reflected in the numbers of mobile phone connections and growth are buttressed by a new study that points to digital inequality in…
New York, March 9 (IANS) Social media giant Facebook is reportedly working on a software that will be capable of building a dictionary of slang terms used on the social networking website. The software will…
New York, March 9 (IANS) While the negative effects of excessive video gaming have been widely reported, a new research has found that playing video games is associated with high overall school competence and less…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Once the virtual reality (VR) phenomenon explodes, India, with its huge smartphone base, will be a key market — but VR players will have to come up…
New York, March 9 (IANS) If rumours are to be believed, smartphone giant Apple is coming up with a 5.8-inch iPhone that will feature a tough AMOLED display panel and may launch it in 2018…
Tokyo, March 9 (IANS) Japanese information technology company NEC has planned to sell its advanced early alert systems for earthquakes in different countries, including Latin America. The company announced in a statement on Wednesday that…
By Arvind Gupta and Prasanto K. Roy The world has been talking about email this week, after the death of American programmer, Ray Tomlinson, on March 5. Tomlinson has been variously called emails godfather, father…
Seoul, March 9 (IANS) A team of South Korean researchers has developed a novel fuel cell that can let drones fly for more than an hour and can lead to smartphones batteries that need charge…
Beijing, March 9 (IANS) A Chinese couple was sentenced to three years in jail for selling their new-born daughter online to buy an iPhone and a motorbike with the funds, a media report said. The…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) When it comes to Google Search, more and more Indian women across age groups are using the search engine — outnumbering men by a whooping margin — on issues ranging…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Taking the smartphone world by surprise, leading South Korean smartphone maker Samsung on Tuesday launched its flagship smartphone Galaxy S7 and its curved-screen companion Galaxy S7 Edge at an irresistible…